Relates to political conditions in Taiwan, and to Taiwanese-American relations.

Background

James Wei was a Taiwanese writer. Wei was a native of Chekiang and graduated from Yenching University in Peking. He started
his career as a reporter in Tientsin and later in Shanghai. From 1942-1948, he joined the International Department, Ministry
of Information; he then became head of the Shanghai Office of the Ministry of Information (later called the Government Information
Office). He then settled in Taiwan, where he served as Reuters correspondent for three years, while simultaneously holding
the post of deputy director of the Central News Agency. Wei was also one of the founders of the "China News," an English Language
newspaper, along with being the publisher when it was first created in 1949. Then from 1954-1965, Wei worked as managing director
of the Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC). In 1966, he was appointed director general of the Government Information Office
before becoming the director of the Central News Agency in 1972, before retiring from the CNA in 1978. He was also national-policy
advisor to President Chiang Ching-kuo until he died of a heart attack in October 1982 at the age of 74.